AS6894 KDDI-EUROPE KDDI Europe Ltd.

KDDI-EUROPE is the network of KDDI Europe Ltd, the London-based EMEA arm of the

Japanese telecommunications operator KDDI.

What it's used for

• ICT services for corporate customers across Europe, the Middle East and the CIS: managed network, cloud, data-centre, security, and systems-integration work, much of it for Japanese multinationals with European operations.
• The announced space numbers KDDI Europe's own service infrastructure. Reverse DNS on it resolves under kew.net, the domain used by the European entity (also visible in its registry contact handle, KEW NAMEADMIN).

Notable

• This is a regional subsidiary's enterprise-services network, not KDDI's Japanese carrier backbone. Do not read the parent group's scale into this ASN: it announces roughly 10k IPv4 addresses.
• The older of its two allocations, 195.14.64.0/19, carries the netname UK-KDD, preserving the name of KDD Corporation, Japan's former state international-telecoms monopoly, which merged into KDDI in 2000.

Interesting

• KDDI's sister company Telehouse operates the London data centre that has hosted the London Internet Exchange since its early days, so the group's European footprint sits close to the centre of UK interconnection even though this ASN itself is a modest enterprise network.